Podcast „Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum“
Episode #49 | New Year's special: "The bigger the crisis, the greater the potential for cooperation"
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Podcast episode 49
New Year's special: "The bigger the crisis, the greater the potential for cooperation"
Matthias & Tristan Horx, futurologists at Horx Future GmbH
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Episode description
Matthias and Tristan Horx explore a broad field: the future. In the New Year's episode of the podcast “Alles Neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum”, father and son talk about the ‘omnicrisis’, futurology in times of chaos - and formulate a plea to look to the future with confidence despite all the gloomy news about wars and the crisis of liberal democracies. “Every trend has a counter-trend,” says Matthias Horx. “The right-wingers who are now trying to flee back to the 1950s will still be looking around.” You can't simply turn society backwards. This also applies, for example, to climate-friendly technologies such as electromobility. Horx expects “anti-ecological moaning” over the next five years. But in the end, new technologies will also prevail for price reasons.
The futurologist also talks about how his work has changed in recent years. “The future used to be a concept of longing,” he says. “Today, we live in a culture of fear. And when people drift into fear, society destroys itself from within.” Both father and son agree that exaggerated pessimism is misplaced. “The bigger the crisis, the greater the potential for cooperation between us. That's the human advantage. We are good because we cooperate. Especially in crises, we manage that,” says Tristan Horx - in the podcast ”Alles Neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum” with Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum, and Capital editor Katja Michel.
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Matthias and Tristan Horx
After a career as a journalist and publicist, Matthias Horx developed into the most influential trend and futurologist in the German-speaking world. His son Tristan Horx is a trend researcher, publicist and Generation Y speaker who specializes in futurology and social development.
Über den Podcast
How can the origin and future of Mittelstand companies be courageously united? What are the challenges facing family businesses and what experiences do they gather in digital transformation? These questions are answered by “Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum“, the interview podcast for German Mittelstand*. Once a month, Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum, and Nils Kreimeier, Senior Editor of the business magazine Capital, talk to thought leaders and makers from the heart of the German economy and focus on the personalities and their motivation. *The podcast is in German.
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